US foreign policy in the Middle East doesn’t exist anymore
Now it is Putin who invites Bashar al-Assad to Sochi, and chats to the presidents of Iran and Turkey, and whose army remains in Syria, and remains a good friend […]
UN chief calls for lifting of Gaza blockade
By AFP – Aug 31,2017 -JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on July 29 shows a Palestinian woman preparing bread during the few hours of electricity supply they receive every day in Gaza City (AFP photo) JABALIA, Palestinian Territories — UN chief Antonio Guterres called for the blockade of Gaza […]
Pushing Gaza to Suicide: The Politics of Humiliation
June 29, 2017 By Ramzy Baroud Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical care and proper dentistry work cost him all of his teeth, which rotted and decayed […]
The unwanted ‘bride’: Can the 1967 war offer opportunity for peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Monday 5 June 2017 There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference 120 years ago in Basel, Switzerland, wanted […]
The West should reflect on its part in prolonging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Westerners who rail against Israel for the failure to end the conflict are being too easy on their own governments Donald Macintyre @indyvoices 116 comments Fifty years ago this Monday, on the first day of the Six Day War, Shlomo Gazit, head of the Israeli military intelligence’s assessment department, visited […]
Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin
Reuters International MAY 7, 2017 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Oded Balilty/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – […]
Israel blocking rights workers’ access to Gaza — HRW
By AFP – Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian people hold banner during a social media campaign ‘#SavePalPeople’ in Gaza City, Gaza, on Saturday (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is blocking rights activists’ access to and from the Gaza Strip, hampering their work in the Palestinian enclave […]
Israeli forces deliver land confiscation notices in Ramallah-area village
FEB. 11, 2017 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces delivered confiscation notices on Friday for 275 dunams (69 acres) of private Palestinian land on the outskirts of the village of Beituniya in the western part of the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that farmers […]
Trump says he really wants Israel-Palestinian peace deal, warns both sides to be ‘reasonable’
View of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on Feb. 7, 2017. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) By William Booth February 10, 2017 JERUSALEM —President Trump warned Israel on Friday that building more homes in Jewish settlements was not “good for peace” and said he wanted Israel to “act reasonably” […]
The Paris peace conference was beyond useless – everyone knows a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine is impossible now
Anyone who’s visited the West Bank these past few years, looked at the Jewish colonies built on stolen Arab land, witnessed the occupation and the filth of Gaza and observed its brutal Hamas militia leaders – and realised that Netanyahu will soon be the most left-wing member of his increasingly […]
As a young Jew, the news coming out of Israel makes me feel hopeless about ending the Occupation
Epigraph: So show your love for the stranger or foreigner, for you were foreigner in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Source: The Independent My relationship with Israel began with […]
Can Trump be any worse for Palestinians?
Nov 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as US President-elect Donald Trump is fortifying his transitional team with people capable of bringing about a nightmare scenario, not only for Americans but for the rest of the world as well. For Palestinians, the signs […]
Death in numbers: A year of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
OCT. 4, 2016 12:51 P.M. (UPDATED: NOV. 1, 2016 9:45 P.M.) Israeli security forces tend to an injured soldier next to the body of a slain Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank on Oct. 16, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In October 2015 began […]
Death in numbers: A year of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
OCT. 4, 2016 Israeli security forces tend to an injured soldier next to the body of a slain Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank on Oct. 16, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave […]
Quartet warns that Israeli settlements eroding two-state solution
By Reuters – Sep 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian Malek Al Qadi, 20, who recently ended a 69-day hunger strike to protest his administrative detention by Israel, flashes victory signs after his release from an Israeli prison as he arrived for treatment in a hospital in the city of […]
Rewarding arrogance and disregard for humanitarian law
Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The US Congress has recently passed a bill giving Israel $38 billion over 10 years in military assistance, making it the largest to any of US’ allies. Israel hailed the deal as historic, and historic it is for this country that continues to defy […]
Israel-Palestine clarity
Sep 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Moments of sudden clarity in political developments can strike anywhere and at any time, as I experienced in relation to the Palestine-Israel conflict while riding the F-train subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan Tuesday morning. Three separate stories I read in the […]
Palestinian economy could double without Israeli occupation — UN
Rising infant mortality rate in Gaza ‘shocking indicator of grim situation’ By AFP – Sep 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian boy sits in the living room of his family house following Israeli artillery shelling in town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday (AP photo) GENEVA […]
Punishing the messenger: Israel’s war on NGOs takes a worrying turn
AUG. 24, 2016 Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign activists march to protest the demolition of the Palestinian village of Susiya in July 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: […]
US deeply concerned over settlement activity
REUTERS | Published — Friday 29 July 2016 BESIEGED NATION: A street vendor displays his goods in front of a painting in Gaza. (AFP) WASHINGTON: The US is deeply concerned about Israel’s reported plans to build an additional 323 units in settlements in East Jerusalem on top of previously announced […]